Calavar

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by Calavar 1y ago
I don't have a degree in linguistics, but I took a few classes about 15 years ago, and Chomsky's works were basically treated as gospel. Although my university's linguistics faculty included several of his former graduate stu
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by Calavar 1y ago
The US docotor shortage is a myth. Wait times are the result of beauracratic nonsense has reduced the efficiency of the existing physician workforce [1, 2]. [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstrac
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by Calavar 1y ago
Slapping the constexpr keyword on a function is useless by itself, but it becomes useful when you combine it with a constexpr or constinit variable. Which is not all that different from Rust: // C++ constexpr Foo bar() {
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by Calavar 1y ago
Research can broadly be divided into three categories: 1. Experimental research: Form a hypothesis. Create datapoints by some process: could be mixing chemicals in test tubes, giving patients enrolled in a study a medication, pointing a te
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by Calavar 1y ago
Let's be real, this is a Maoist attempt to supress the intelligencia. The anti-Semitism angle is just a thin veneer to sell it publicly. This is why, after Columbia accepted the first set of demands, the admin immediately came back wit
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by Calavar 1y ago
> The guy who won the Nobel prize for giving himself an ulcer estimated it as 90% That's worldwide. In developed countries the proportion is closer to 10 to 15% [1, 2] [1] https://www.jwatch.org/na50875/2020&#x2
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by Calavar 1y ago
I realized my mistake and I think I edited my comment a split second before you replied, but you're right. That particular type punning scenario wouldn't be affected by this change because 1) the members are the same size, so ther
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by Calavar 1y ago
I would guess a lot. People aren't intimately familiar with the standard, and people are lazy when it comes to writing boilerplate like initialization code. And up until now, it just worked, so even a good test suite wouldn't catc
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by Calavar 1y ago
> {0} initializer in C or C++ for unions no longer guarantees clearing of the whole union (except for static storage duration initialization), it just initializes the first union member to zero. If initialization of the whole union inclu
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by Calavar 1y ago
That doesn't explain why the delivery consistently jumps 30% to 50% as soon as you hit the confirm button and they process your payment. If they were giving an honest estimate, you'd expect a gradual increase in the estimate as th
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by Calavar 1y ago
This experiment involves each LLM responding to 128 or 256 prompts. AI detection is generally focused on determining the writer of a single document, not comparing two analagous sets of 128 documents and determining if the same person/
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by Calavar 1y ago
Thanks for the correction. Interesting
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by Calavar 1y ago
Yes. And for a non animal example, there's sea grass, which evolved from land grasses.
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by Calavar 1y ago
That's done with HTTP headers though, right? Not JavaScript.
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by Calavar 2y ago
> Brighter days ahead once again for the descendants of those that settled, built, and fought for this country. A very 1920s vibe in the 2020s, which makes me sad that we've slid this far back, that so many Americans no longer belie
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by Calavar 2y ago
> the compiler can prove that code runs UB, it is invalid code The *potential* to hit UB is not invalid according to the standard. If it was, then an unchecked array access would be illegal. If every possible input state for an operation
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by Calavar 2y ago
UB can't be a compile time error though. And I don't mean it's too hard because it would require Turing complete/undecidable compile time analysis, I mean a compile time error for UB would be a violation of the language
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by Calavar 2y ago
The compiler removes code under the assumption that your code doesn't have UB. If your code has UB, that's a bug. "When my code is buggy the compiler outputs a buggy executable, but it's buggy in a different way than I w
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by Calavar 2y ago
That still doesn't require any flags. Where it starts to get complicated is when you link in system libraries, because they vary between OSes and different versions/distros of the same OS. If you need to support multiple platforms
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by Calavar 2y ago
I'm so glad my motherboard doesn’t support Windows 11. That's the one 'secret hack' that seems to work.
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by Calavar 2y ago
Clearly the prompting works, but the I think the more interesting question is why. Even from a just-get-things-done perspective, if you understand the mechanism of how and why a prompting technique works, that's going make you more suc
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by Calavar 2y ago
Sounds like you want the model to consider the whole body of poetry it was trained on minus "The Road Not Taken"? (To get rid of preconceptions/biases I guess?) I'm skeptical that LLMs have the ability to conditionally s
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by Calavar 2y ago
I think the discrepancy comes from semantic overloading of the word "should" in "I doubted if I should ever come back." In older style English "should ever" can be interpreted as would ever happen to or woul
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by Calavar 2y ago
That video makes some good observatons, but it's also hilarious that he tried to "retrain" ChatGPT by asking it in the chat to remove some items from its dataset.
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by Calavar 2y ago
> Any plausible Israeli government, left, right or centre, would have conducted the war in roughly the same way So why did Benny Gantz leave the unity government and say publicly that it was because of irreconcilable differences over how
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by Calavar 2y ago
This is a very common trope in any Israel/Gaza debate. Person A says 'Palestinians' and Person B judos that into 'Hamas' to make Person A's point sound extremist.
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by Calavar 2y ago
Interestingly though, compatibility in the reverse direction has actually gotten better over time. C99 allows variables to be declared at any point in a function. Before C99, the all variables up front rule used to be the single biggest rea
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by Calavar 2y ago
It looks like this is an ad for a talk that's going to happen at a Ruby conference a month from now? There's not really much to chew on here.
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by Calavar 2y ago
That assumes that the main beneficiaries are pro-crypto voters and not a small handful of special interest insider traders.
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by Calavar 2y ago
> I want surgeons to decline any case that looks technically difficult. A better surgeon should handle those cases. Already happens all the time, although it's at the discretion of the first surgeon. Again, it's difficult to fo

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